Program

Program Outline

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
8:00AM  Registration Excursions
Welcome
9:00AM  ALMA Status Talks Talks Talks Postdoc Symposium
Talks
10:00AM 
Poster Flash Poster Flash
Poster Flash Breaks & Posters Poster Flash Breaks & Posters
Breaks & Posters Breaks & Posters
11:00AM 
Talks Talks Talks Talks
12:00PM 
Lunch (90 Minutes) Conference Photo Lunch (90 Minutes) Poster Flash
Lunch (90 Minutes) 
Lunch (80 Minutes)
1:00PM 
Postdoc Symposium
2:00PM  Talks Talks Talks
 Talks
3:00PM 
Poster Flash Poster Flash
Break & Posters Breaks & Posters
4:00PM 
Talks Breaks & Posters
Talks
Summary and Final Remarks
5:00PM   
Registration & Welcome Reception 
Palms Springs VillageFest
Closing Cocktails in Stir (Cash Bar)
6:00PM  Poster Flash
Conference Dinner Poster Reception
 
7:00PM   
8:00PM 
9:00PM 

 

Detailed Program

Monday, September 19, 2016
8:00 AM 10:00 PM
Airport Transfers to Renaissance
5:00 PM 7:00 PM
Registration/Welcome Reception

Tuesday, September 20, 2016
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Welcome
9:00 AM 9:30 AM Pierre Cox (ALMA, JAO) Half a Decade of Science with ALMA: A Review
Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Gas & Star Formation Properties (Chair: Aeree Chung )
9:30 AM 10:00 AM Linda Tacconi (MPIE, Garching) Review of Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Gas & Star Formation Properties
10:00 AM 10:15 AM Justin Spilker (University of Arizona) Resolving the Most Intensely Star-Forming Galaxies in the Universe
10:15 AM 10:30 AM Jacqueline Hodge (Leiden Observatory) Discovery of Kiloparsec-Scale Dust Disks in High-Redshift Ultraluminous Galaxies
10:30 AM 10:45 AM Poster Flash
10:45 AM 11:15 AM Break / Poster Viewing
11:15 AM 11:30 AM Akio Inoue (Osaka Sangyo University) Detection of the [OIII] 88 Micron Line at z=7.2
11:30 AM 11:45 AM Riccardo Pavesi ( Cornell University Significant Variations in the [CII]/[NII] Ratios of Galaxies within the First Billion Years
11:45 AM 12:00 PM Nanyao Lu (CASSACA NAOC) ALMA Spectral-Line Survey in CO(7-6) and [NII] at z ~ 5 and a Novel Way to Characterize Star Formation in High-z Galaxies
12:00 PM 12:15 PM Martin Zwaan  (ESO) Reservoirs Unveiled with Ch+(1-0) Around Starburst Galaxies at Z∼2
12:15 PM 12:30 PM Chelsea Sharon (McMaster University) Excitation Dependence of the Spatially Resolved Schmidt-Kennicutt Relation in a z~2 Normal UV-bright Disk Galaxy
12:30 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
Low Mass Star Formation (Chair: Vivien Chen)
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Adele Plunkett (ESO/ALMA) Low Mass Star Formation
2:30 PM 2:45 PM Chat Hull (Harvard / NRAO) Full-Stokes Observations of Class 0 Protostellar Sources in Serpens: the ALMA Polarization Revolution Has Begun
2:45 PM 3:00 PM Nuria Marcelino (ICMM, CSIC) The Young Protostars B1b-N and B1b-S
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Fumitaka Nakamura (NAOJ) ALMA Observations of Low-Mass End of A Core Mass Function in Rho Ophiuchus A Region
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Zsofia Nagy (University of Toledo) Measuring Rotation in Protostellar Envelopes: ALMA Observations of Edge-On Orion Protostars
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Poster Flash
3:45 PM 4:30 PM Break / Poster Viewing
Chemical Evolution During Star and Planet Formation (Chair: Brett McGuire)
4:30 PM 5:00 PM Jeong-Eun Lee (Kyung Hee University) Chemical Evolution During Star and Planet Formation
5:00 PM 5:15 PM Gary Fuller (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics) Tracing the Evolution of Massive Protostars
5:15 PM 5:30 PM Nanase Harada (ASIAA) Effects of Grain Growth on Chemistry in Protostars
5:30 PM 5:45 PM Jes Jorgensen (Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen) Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey (PILS): ALMA insights into the complex chemistry of young stars
5:45 PM 6:00 PM James McMillan (The Ohio State University) Weeding the Astrophysical Garden Using Complete Experimental Spectra
6:30 PM
8:30 PM
Conference Dinner

Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Stars and Stellar Evolution (Chair: Lars-Ake Nyman)
9:00 AM 9:30 AM Liz Humphreys (ESO, Garching) Stars and Stellar Evolution
9:30 AM 9:45 AM Raghvendra Sahai (JPL) A Study of High Speed Outflows and Dusty Disks During the AGB to PB Transition
9:45 AM 10:00 AM Jeonghee Rho (SETI Institute/SOFIA Science Center) Discovery of Millimeter Shocked Molecular Gas and Molecular Hydrogen from the Supernova Remnant G357.7+0.3
10:00 AM 10:15 AM Atish Kamble (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA) Observing the Effects of Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in Young Supernovae
10:15 AM 10:30 AM Poster Flash
10:30 AM 11:15 AM Break / Poster Viewing
11:15 AM 12:30 PM Future Opportunities (Chair: Stuartt Corder)
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI) JWST and ALMA: Science Opportunities and Status
11:30 AM
11:40 AM
John Carpenter (ALMA/JAO) ALMA Capabilities in Cycle 4
11:40 AM
11:50 AM
Al Wootten (NRAO) Upcoming Approved ALMA Studies and New Projects
11:50 AM
12:00 PM
Neal Evans (UT, Austin) A Development Vision for ALMA
12:00 PM 12:30 PM Discussion, led by Stuartt
12:30 PM 12:40 PM Conference Photo
12:40 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
Nearby Galaxies: Normal Galaxies (Chair: Linda Watson)
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Karin Sandstrom (UC San Diego) ALMA's View of Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
2:30 PM 2:45 PM Monica Rubio (Universidad de Chile) The Lowest Metallicity Molecular Clouds With ALMA
2:45 PM 3:00 PM Yuri Nishimura (University of Tokyo) Chemical Composition in Low-Metallicity Dwarfs: the 3 mm Spectral Line Survey Observations toward the LMC and IC10
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Remy Indebetouw ( Uva/NRAO) Extragalactic Star Formation at <0.1pc Resolution: 30Doradus with ALMA
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Christine Wilson (McMaster University) The CN/CO Ratio as a Tracer of UV Heating in Nearby Galaxies
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Poster Flash
3:45 PM 4:15 PM Break / Poster Viewing
Massive Star Formation (Chair: James Chibueze)
4:15 PM 4:45 PM Qizhou Zhang (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Review: Massive Star Formation
4:45 PM 5:00 PM Fabien Louvet (Universidad de Chile) Origin of the Stellar IMF in the W43-MM1 Mini-Starbust Ridge
5:00 PM 5:15 PM  Todd Hunter (NRAO) The Massive Protostellar Maelstrom of NGC6334I
5:15 PM 5:30 PM Adam Ginsburg (ESO) Feedback and Accretion Toward Proto-O-Stars at ALMA's Highest Resolution
5:30 PM 5:45 PM Josep M Girart (Institute of Space Sciences IEEC-CSIC) Scatter-Induced Dust Polarization from an Accretion Disk Around a Massive Protostar
5:45 PM 6:00 PM

Poster Flash

6:00 PM 7:00 PM Poster Reception

Thursday, September 22, 2016
Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Cosmic Evolution (Chair: Catherine Vlahakis)
9:00 AM 9:30 AM Caitlin Casey (UT Austin) Cosmic Evolution of Gas and Dust
9:30 AM 9:45 AM Fabian Walter (MPIA Heidelberg) CO Emission in ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
9:45 AM 10:00 AM Manuel Aravena (Universidad Diego Portales) Millimeter Continuum and [CII] Line Emission from ASPECS: The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
10:00 AM 10:15 AM Hideki Umehata (University of Tokyo) ALMA Deep Field in SSA22
10:15 AM 10:30 AM Yiping Ao (NAOJ) Deep Submm and Radio Observations Towards LABs
10:30 AM 10:45 AM Poster Flash
10:45 AM 11:15 AM Break / Poster Viewing
11:15 AM 11:30 AM Marcel Neeleman (UC Santa Cruz) Lighting Up Shadows: CO and [CII] Detections of Absorption-Selected Galaxies
11:30 AM 11:45 AM Nick Scoville (Caltech) Evolution of ISMs and Star Formation at z = 1 to 4
11:45 AM 12:00 PM Helen Russell (Institute of Astronomy University of Cambridge) Massive Molecular Gas Flows and AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters
12:00 PM 12:15 PM Yashar Hezaveh (Stanford University) Detecting the Missing Dark Matter Subhalos with ALMA Observations of Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies
12:15 PM 12:30 PM James Geach (University of Hertfordshire) ALMA Solves the Mystery of Lyman-alpha Blob 1: Halo Substructure Illuminated from Within
12:30 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
Protostellar Disks & Planet Formation (Chair: Ken Tatematsu)
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Laura Perez (MPIfR, Bonn) Planet Formation in Protostellar Disks: New Insights from ALMA Observations
2:30 PM 2:45 PM Yusuke Aso (University of Tokyo) ALMA Observations of Keplerian Disks Around Protostars
2:45 PM 3:00 PM Dominique Segura-Cox (University of Illinois) Has Planet Formation Already Begun in the Class I Protostellar Phase?
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Dmitry Semenov (MPIA, Heidelberg) Molecular Diagnostics of Protoplanetary Disk Gaps
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Kamber Schwarz (University of Michigan) Resolved CO and H2 Abundance Structure in the Protoplanetary Disk TW Hya
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Andrea Isella (Rice University) Ringed Structure of the HD 163296 Disk Revealed by ALMA
3:45 PM 4:00 PM Ryan Loomis (Harvard University) AA Tau: A Surprise Multi-Ringed Transition Disk
4:00 PM 4:30 PM Arielle Moullet (NRAO) ALMA View of the Solar System

5:30 PM 10:30 PM Palm Springs Village Fest Excursion

Friday, September 23, 2016

Transition and Debris Disks (Chair: Antonio Hales)

9:00 AM 9:30 AM Brenda Matthews (NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics) ALMA Observations of Debris Disks: A Window into the Diversity of Planetary Systems
9:30 AM 9:45 AM Scott Barenfeld (Caltech) The End of Primordial Disk Evolution: An ALMA Survey of Upper Sco
9:45 AM 10:00 AM Luca Matra (Institute of Astronomy University of Cambridge) Gas in Debris Disks and the Dawn of Exocometary Science with ALMA
10:00 AM 10:15 AM Jacob White (University of British Columbia) ALMA 1.3 mm Observations of the Fomalhaut System
10:15 AM 10:30 AM Poster Flash
10:30 AM 11:15 AM Break / Poster Viewing
Nearby Galaxies: Starbursts & Super Star Clusters (Chair: Amanda Kepley )
11:15 AM 11:45 AM Kazushi Sakamoto (ASIAA) Starburst and Super Star Clusters with ALMA
11:45 AM 12:00 PM Kazimierz Sliwa (MPIA) A Tale of Woe for 13CO in Luminous Infrared Galaxies
12:00 PM 12:15 PM Kelsey Johnson ( UVa The Relationship Between Super Star Clusters and Molecular Gas
12:15 PM 12:30 PM Ryo Ando ( University of Tokyo) Five Parsec View of the Diverse Starburst Activities in the Heart of NGC253
12:30 PM 12:45 PM Poster Flash
12:45 PM 2:15 PM Lunch
Galactic Centers (<1 kpc): Star Formation, AGN, Black Holes & ULIRGs (Chair: Daisuke Iono)
2:15 PM 2:45 PM Masatoshi Imanishi (NAOJ) ALMA Molecular Line Observations of the Nuclei of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and Optical Seyfert Galaxies
2:45 PM 3:00 PM Masato Tsuboi (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science) ALMA View of the Galactic Center Mini-Spiral
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Alvaro Sanchez-Monge (University of Cologne) An ALMA View of SgrB2: Continuum Characterization and Spectral Line Survey
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Akio Taniguchi (University of Tokyo) ALMA Study of the Shocked Gas Around the Nucleus of NGC 1068 By the Observations of Multi-transition SiO Lines
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Loreto Barcos-Munoz (ALMA) ALMA's View of the Arp 220 Disks From New Extended Configuration Observations of Dense Gas Tracers
3:45 PM 4:00 PM Aaron Barth (UC Irvine) Measuring Black Hole Masses in Early-Type Galaxies with ALMA
4:00 PM 4:30 PM Break / Poster Viewing
4:30 PM 5:30 PM Anneila Sargent (Caltech) Summary and Final Remarks
5:30 PM    Closing Cocktails in Stir (Cash Bar)

Saturday, September 24, 2016
7:00 AM 7:00 PM Airport Transfers
8:00 AM 11:00 AM Red Jeep Excursion
9:00 AM 12:00 PM Bus Tour
1:00 PM 5:00 PM Postdoc Symposium

Sunday, September 25, 2016
9:00 AM 5:00 PM Postdoc Symposium